"Access Istiod via the tap service of each agent")
	statusCmd.PersistentFlags().IntVar(&multiXdsOpts.XdsViaAgentsLimit, "xds-via-agents-limit", 100,
		"Maximum number of pods being visited by istioctl when `xds-via-agent` flag is true."+
			"To iterate all the agent pods without limit, set to 0")

	return statusCmd

		} else {
			// If oldpod != ready && newpod != ready, but the ambient annotation was added,
			// then assume this event was generated by the CNI plugin labeling the pod on startup,
			// and skip the event.
			//
			// This isn't perfect (someone could manually annotate an unready pod,
			// then install Istio, then the pod goes ready, and we'd miss capture) - but that

	defer cancel()

	fixture := connect(ctx)
	ztunClient := fixture.ztunClient
	uid := fixture.uid

	m, fds := readRequest(t, ztunClient)
	// we got am essage from ztun, so it should have observed us being connected
	mt.Assert(ztunnelConnected.Name(), nil, monitortest.Exactly(1))

	// we should get the fd to dev null. note that we can't assert the fd number